Matt had 2 weeks off recently after returning home from deployment. We didn’t go on any cruises or fancy vacations, but enjoyed being home with movies and video games, working out together, walks and woods, good meals and tasty drinks, shopping, touring, and a whole lot of fishing. Matt discovered that fishing has the potential to be a fun and successful hobby here in this place that is filled with water and life, so we gathered supplies and went adventuring to different local fishing spots. There seems to be a lot more to learn about the sport to be successful at it, but it got us out exploring new places and learning about our area in a whole new way. Hopefully there will be more time in our life for hours of chilling with fishing poles now that Matt is back to work.
oooh….you live in an beautiful place….
I absolutely adore all of these photos together like this. They exude such a feeling of peace. I’d print them all out and hang them on my wall just like this!
These are so beautiful, Jess, and having me longing for summer and for the beach.
Wowzers!
Cedar joined a tee-ball team a couple months ago. He has a cute uniform, a glove, and even a pair of cleats to wear with his orange knee socks. He’s so cute. He has been excited about it, about being on a team, learning to throw and catch, wearing a uniform. Tee-ball– being the kind of team sport in which the majority of what happens is a lot of standing around waiting until that brief moment of running the bases, and then more standing around waiting– may not be the chosen pursuit of our guy, but it is a start. Right now we’re dreaming of soccer for both kids when it starts in the Fall.
Eli starts T-ball this summer and is SO excited. Love his cute little uniform!
A kid that wears his river shoes to a game is a kid after my heart!
We said good-bye to the ocean with Jean on her last night here. We went at sunset to watch the magic of the water and sky, and it was very good indeed. I want to remember to get out of my house and witness the sunset more often, because it’s worth it.
We will surely miss you, Mama Jean.
she surely does miss you, to0
Just some photos today of our little back-together family and Matt’s mom during her visit, checking out Jacksonville tourist spots. No photos of the spot themselves, I’m sorry to say! I guess I love those faces more than the places.
is the first picture from the plantation? and the second from an old indian hut?
PS.
to ashton and cedar:
congrats on being junior rangers!
love, your cousin,
mailli
Absolutely LOVE seeing that family picture, Jess.
It’s nicknamed Boneyard Beach, and it is truly spectacular. I can’t wait to go back.
Wow.
And all your beach photos while I’m still staring at snow…. I might have to take you up on that visit next winter. 
They have a driftwood beach on St. Catherine’s Island, one of the uninhabited barrier islands off the coast of GA, that provided many a magical exploration for me as a kid. And to this day it sets my mind a wandering…
tracey - So fun to see your kids completely muddy and sandy! They were playing hard!!! And what a great beach!
rhonda - MAN that looks like fun!!!!